Wartsila using AR to collaborate & educate
Wartsila’s combo of Virtual Towing Tank and Dive Inspections works to simulate and explain the results, in one technological leap.
MuM reports rebound in Autodesk sales
We are nearing the end of earnings season, but still have a few biggies to go. One of those is Autodesk, and we use its largest European reseller, Mensch und Maschine (MuM) as a preview since MuM reports preliminary results a couple of weeks before Autodesk. Like...
AVEVA cruises along, positive about FY2019
Schneider Electric announced results today, which means that we have a hint about how things are going at AVEVA. AVEVA says that it "delivered low double-digit revenue growth in the first nine months of the financial year", meaning the period ended December 31, 2018....
#SWW19 takeaways from afar
For the first time in years I'm not at SolidWorks World, happening right now in Dallas, TX. Too much travel, too many time zones -- it just didn't fit. So I've been following from afar, on Dassault Systèmes' live broadcasts here. (I'm having trouble with the recorded...
Bentley gets into street signs
I live on a street with the popular girl's name, Kathleen. Every so often a boy, hoping to impress a girl (likely named Kathleen), steals our street sign. I've often wondered how someone monitors those thefts and then causes replacements to be made -- and today, I...
Quickie: DS acquires elecworks
Dassault Systèmes said today that it will acquire Trace Software’s elecworks electrical and automation design software product line in an asset transfer. Trace has been a SolidWorks applications partner since 1997; in 2012, Trace became a strategic partner so that the...
Quickie: Lots of good PLM earnings news
It's a big earnings day and I'm about to settle in for a long (wifi-free) flight, so a quick recap will have to hold us until I can dig into the earnings in more detail -- but it sure looks like the PLMish universe is doing very well, indeed. Dassault Systemes...
Like shuffling along in a crowd? No? Simulation to the rescue!
At last year's Bentley Year in Infrastructure, I was introduced to something I had never seen before: pedestrian modeling. In my naïveté, I assumed that engineers observed humans moving through spaces and used that to inform how they design subway stations, hotel...
PTC’s FQ1: a mixed bag with lots of Creo love
Investors were underwhelmed at PTC's fiscal first quarter 2019 earnings news, since the company said its bookings were at the lower end of its guidance, leading to weaker FQ2 revenue guidance. I'm a glass half-full type of person and prefer to look at the fact that...
ANSYS buys Granta for materials intel
You saw this one coming, right? Two in one week, though .... ANSYS announced last night that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Granta Design, maker of materials intelligence solutions, critical for accurate simulations of material and device...